The top student must be diligent

It's just that...

Well, you are already at the professor level, why should you be so modest? If you feel that you can win the award, just say it openly!

Xiao Yi shook his head and expressed no comment on their behavior.

Then at this moment, someone suddenly called him: "Hey, Xiao Yi, you are here too."

He turned around and unexpectedly saw many acquaintances from the Institute of High Energy Physics. The person who called him was Tang Yifang.

"Academician Tang." Xiao Yi nodded at them.

Tang Yifang asked with a smile: "I'm afraid you can win the first prize of the National Natural Science Award this time."

Ah this...

Xiao Yi was stunned for a moment. He never expected that this question would come to him again.

Well...

He chose to play the fine tradition of the Chinese nation and said modestly: "No, no, how is this possible?"

"Don't pretend, kid. Let's not talk about the twin prime conjecture. Just talk about the commotion caused by the Goldbach conjecture. It's not reasonable not to give you the first prize."

"No way~ It's all nothing. No, no."

Xiao Yi denied it three times in a row.

The people around him laughed immediately.

The team began to move forward at this time. Tang Yifang also came to the entrance and stopped talking to Xiao Yi. After passing the security check, he entered the auditorium.

Soon, all the participants also entered the auditorium, and the award ceremony was still held in the auditorium of 10,000 people.

The last time Xiao Yi came here was the last time.

I came here because of the report on the Goldbach conjecture.

Well...

It's been more than half a year.

Time flies.

Under the guidance of the staff, they took their seats one after another. Xiao Yi finally sat in the middle of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics, so that he could be from both the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics.

Well, it avoided Academician Xi Lan and Academician Pang Cheng from arguing over him again.

In this way, time passed quickly.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the conference officially began.

The leaders entered the venue and gave speeches, expressing their encouragement for the current state of science and technology development in China. Finally, after the speeches, the award ceremony officially began.

"Next, we will officially enter the award ceremony. The first award is the National Highest Science and Technology Award of the Republic!"

The host announced at the front.

"The winners of the National Highest Science and Technology Award are Academician Gu Songfen and Academician Wang Dazhong!"

The audience burst into applause, paying the highest respect to the two winners of the highest award.

Xiao Yi also clapped his hands vigorously, expressing his sincere respect to the two winners.

Every winner of the highest science and technology award has played an extremely important role in the development of the Republic.

It was they who did not choose to go abroad to enjoy wealth and glory during the most impoverished time of the Republic, but resolutely stayed in the country, laying a solid scientific foundation for the newly started Republic in some important directions.

For such people, Xiao Yi always regards them as the people he respects the most.

For example, the two winners of this session.

Academician Gu Songfen, an aircraft aerodynamicist, established the aerodynamic design system of new Chinese aircraft and pioneered the independent development of fighter jets in China. He is the chief designer of the J-8 series fighter models, and the J-8II is known as the beautiful man in the sky.

Academician Wang Dazhong is an important founder of China's nuclear energy technology. He has laid an important technical foundation for China to gradually move towards the forefront of the world in the field of advanced nuclear energy. Now China can become a world leader in nuclear energy technology, and Academician Wang has made an indelible contribution.

Afterwards, the two highest award winners appeared on the rostrum to accept the awards awarded by the leaders. Among them, there was a golden medal, which was worn on the necks of these two old academicians, shining brightly.

Soon, the award ceremony for the highest award was over, and the next was the turn of the three major awards, which were also the awards that many scientists present were most concerned about.

The first award to be presented was the Natural Science Award.

In the audience, many scholars who looked happy and cheerful were nervous at this moment.

The Natural Science Award can be said to be the highlight of the entire award ceremony, even more so than the highest science and technology award, because everyone knows that the winners of the highest award must be those older generation science and technology workers, and only awards like the Natural Science Award are the ones they have the opportunity to win.

In addition, the Natural Science Award is also recognized as the most valuable of the three major awards, so how can they not care?

The grades during the student period can only represent the grades once, but the current awards represent hundreds of thousands, even hundreds of millions of dollars, and their future.

So, even though everyone just said that they didn't win the award, they really care too much when it comes to this time.

The host on the stage was not in a hurry to start at this time. It seemed that he waited for the audience to gather their emotions before he finally opened his mouth and said, "The next award is the first prize of the National Natural Science Award!"

"First, the first winner!"

Everyone held their breath and waited quietly for the host's award speech.

"In 1742, with the mailing of a letter, the mathematical community began to study prime numbers..."

As soon as the first sentence was spoken, everyone in the audience suddenly widened their eyes.

Mathematics?

This should be the Goldbach conjecture, right?

Sure enough, the host's next words verified their conjecture.

"This letter is the famous letter sent by Goldbach to the great mathematician Euler, which raises a question: any integer greater than 5 can be written as the sum of three prime numbers."

"After years of changes, this question has finally evolved into whether any even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers. This is a very simple statement, so simple that even elementary school students who have just mastered the concept of prime numbers can understand this problem."

"But it is such a problem that has trapped the mathematical community for hundreds of years."

"Until this year, Xiao Yi, a famous mathematician in my country, carefully studied the achievements of his predecessors, summarized all the ideas, and made a series of innovations. He finally successfully proved the Goldbach conjecture, took off the crown of number theory, and created the history of the mathematical community. It is considered to be one of the greatest achievements of the mathematical community in so many years, and it is also a major breakthrough in the scientific community."

"Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, so according to the decision of the Natural Science Award Jury, Xiao Yi is awarded the first prize of the Natural Science Award!"

After speaking, the host applauded.

After hesitating for a moment, the audience finally followed suit and applauded.

Obviously, for most people, this news is still a bit too shocking.

Although the news that Xiao Yi's proof of the Goldbach conjecture could win the first prize in natural sciences had spread a long time ago, according to various rumors, it was basically thought that it would take at least one or two years, right?

In the past, they had never heard of such a project that was completed in the same year and could win an award in the same year, let alone the first prize...

As a result, who would have thought that this would really happen at this award ceremony?

In addition to being shocked, people also turned their eyes to the row of seats where Xiao Yi was. Their School of Mathematics and the Institute of Physics were quite close to the front.

Of course, Xiao Yi, as the protagonist at this time, listened to the various applause coming from the surroundings, and he pointed at himself with a confused face.

"Me?"

Although, he was mentally prepared before participating, and he might have a chance to win the award.

But who would have thought that after the two highest science and technology awards were just presented, the third award of the whole venue came to him, which really caught him off guard.

"Good boy, why are you still standing there? Come up to the stage and receive the award."

Pang Cheng, who was sitting next to him, patted his shoulder and said unhappily.

Good boy, this guy really won a first prize in natural sciences. It's impossible not to be jealous.

The Institute of Physics has won the first prize in natural sciences several times, and the most recent one was in 2018. The discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall effect was considered a Nobel Prize-level achievement.

It's a pity that this achievement has nothing to do with him, the director.

Of course, the last time was in 2013, when the Institute of Physics' discovery of iron-based superconductors won them the first prize. This time Pang Cheng was in the research team.

However, he was not the leader of the team at that time, let alone an independent winner of the first prize like Xiao Yi.

However, he was not the only one who was jealous. Who in the audience was not jealous?

Xiao Yi also came back to his senses at this time, then nodded, stood up quickly, and walked onto the podium amid applause.

On the rostrum, the old leader in charge of awarding the prize smiled, walked up to Xiao Yi and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Xiao Yi, you are very good."

"I have never seen such an excellent young man like you. I hope you can continue to exert your ability and make more achievements."

Hearing the words of the old leader, Xiao Yi felt flattered and said repeatedly, "Thank you, I will work hard."

"Yeah." The old leader nodded with satisfaction, and then did not rush to award the prize. He said to the photographer over there, "Come, take a separate photo for us first."

The photographer quickly stepped forward and took a photo of the two.

Perhaps, this photo will be put into the history books in a few decades and admired by countless future generations.

Afterwards, the old leader finally began to award the first prize to Xiao Yi.

The first prize only has a certificate, and there is also a bonus of 300,000 yuan.

Of course, the bonus is basically just a bonus. For such a major award, honor is the most important.

The award that had just been issued took another group photo. Finally, his award ceremony was over.

He returned to the stage once again amid applause. Along the way, researchers from various universities and research institutes sent him congratulations.